Coathangrrr comments on Supporting the underdog is explained by Hanson’s Near/Far distinction - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Coathangrrr 07 April 2009 12:38:15AM 2 points [-]

<i>If I have to stick with a very unpredictive hypothesis, I have a decreased ability to predict the world, I will therefore do worse.</i>

Not true. If you have a prediction model that is non-random and wrong you will get better results from simple random predictions.

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